ABSTRACT
This chapter takes lead from one of the early existential therapists, Medard Boss, who, having originally trained in psychoanalysis, sought to re-imagine the practice of psychoanalysis through phenomenology. It follows the path of Boss in order to re-imagine the visual matrix method through phenomenology rather than object-relations and Deleuzian theory in the service of developing a method for collecting group-level data in phenomenology. The chapter discusses the challenge of a group-level analysis for phenomenology, which has traditionally been concerned with individual first-person experience. It provides more practical detail on the visual matrix method and introduces a project involving authors working with an artist to produce a film series based on a research project on enduring relationships. The chapter presents authors' own analysis of the data produced in the evaluation of the film series, as an exemplar of how to conduct an existential group-level phenomenological analysis of visual matrix data.
